Team Sauber Petronas drivers Jacques Villeneuve and Felipe Massa
finished sixth and 10th respectively in today's Belgian Grand Prix at
Spa-Francorchamps.
Jacques Villeneuve:
"This result makes it all worthwhile going into qualifying with a ...

"This result makes it all worthwhile going into qualifying with a heavy
fuel load! The decision to stay out when the safety car was deployed
was exactly the right thing to do. As the race progressed things got
better as the fuel load decreased, but I had plenty of adventures along
the way. I was completely sideways in Eau Rouge on one lap and I really
thought that was it. But I saved it, and then had some wheel-banging
with Karthikeyan up at Les Combes, so it wasn't a dull race for me!"

"As the track started to dry it got difficult on intermediates, but
the reason Ralf caught me so much on the final lap was because I had
to lap a Minardi in a tricky place and lost time. Overall this was a
great result that brought me a lot of satisfaction, especially on this
challenging track."

Felipe Massa:

"What can I say? We could have been on the podium if I had stayed on
intermediates, because I was way ahead of Button. My engineer Mike Krack
asked me should we stay on them before my second stop, but the track
was a bit like it was on Friday when the grooved tyres had worked okay
in damp conditions, so I figured it was worth the risk and said let's
change to dries. If it had worked we would have been heroes. As it was,
the car just became undriveable."

Peter Sauber (Team Principal):

"This was a dramatic race for everyone. Jacques had a very good drive to
sixth and it had not been easy for him to go with the decision to adopt
a one-stop strategy. In particular he did a very good job handling a
fuel-heavy car in difficult conditions."

"Felipe was on schedule for a top
finishing position, but we agreed with him to take a calculated risk to
change to dry tyres, and unfortunately it did not pay off. His second
stop came just a bit too early in retrospect, because the track changed
five laps later, but at Team Sauber Petronas we are here to race and
sometimes these things happen."